Last night The Bachelor Zac Franich sent home New Zealand's best Ivanka Trump impersonator Karina Grant.
This is the girl who audiences widely agreed was both incredibly beautiful and incredibly bitchy. But just as the cameras made cool Bachelorettes as dull as boiled vegetables, again Karina was done an injustice by her on-air persona.
On TV, it appeared as though she thought her fellow contestants had all the merit of cabbage patch dolls.
In real life, her haughtiness is actually just a deeply hesitant, reserved manner covering the hint of a stutter. In short, she's shy. Not an icy bitch.
She does know she got flack on the show for being too distant. Not that it seems to worry her overly.
"Yeah I did, that's just my personality is super laid back and I'm okay with it."
She caused a lot of viewer uproar last night when she pointed out to Zac how young the girls were.
However, even that catty comment doesn't feel very venomous when she explains it in real life.
"I kind of realised I was… I'm 23 as well, like most of the others so I don't know where I was going with it."
Was it a more a question about emotional maturity? (Not an unfair question. Some of the girls look like they're going to break down if left unattended by Zac for more than five minutes.)
"Yeah I was meaning more personality wise."
She says the others definitely have larger personalities and she's more reserved and quiet.
It certainly does take a level of calm to handle being confronted with your ex on reality TV. It was revealed a couple of episodes ago, to a lot of squealing, that Karina used to date host Dominic Bowden.
However, she wasn't fazed by such a small problem as re-meeting the man she'd previously exchanged saliva with on national TV.
Was it awkward? "No. Not at all." So it was totally cool. "Totally cool." Well...cool.
Leaving didn't worry her either, especially given that her date with Zac had all the fizz of a floppy lettuce.
"It was a bit awkward… we're just two different people, really." And was there any chemistry at all? "Not a whole lot, no."
Well, at least that made for a relatively painless exit from the show. Karina admits she wasn't particularly upset to go home.
"We didn't have a lot of time together…so it was just like, 'hey this is a guy' and that's about it."
And with that she exited Asia and slipped back into law student life.
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